Gumbo's Pic of the Day, Apr. 16, 2014: The Tuileries Fleet
The Tuileries gardens, stretching parallel to the Seine from the Louvre to the Place de la Concorde, are a favorite stroll, or a great place to stop and rest and read, or even nap.
The Tuileries gardens, stretching parallel to the Seine from the Louvre to the Place de la Concorde, are a favorite stroll, or a great place to stop and rest and read, or even nap.
Gumbo was visiting the gothic Church in Vernon, a few short kilometers from Monet's gardens and home at Giverny.
It's spring and the cherry blossoms are opening everywhere. To me few things say "goodbye winter" and "hello spring" more than cherry blossoms.
I made this image of a man sleeping next to a side entrance of the National Assembly on my first trip to Paris, as a 16-year-old in 1960.
Gumbo's Picture of the Day for April 13th, above, is an image I made nearly 55 years ago, on my first trip to Paris: a man sleeping on the ground at a side entrance to the National Assembly building.
Cannes: The first things that come to mind are, for most people, the film festival with outrageous costumes and gala receptions, or the rows and rows of rich folks' yachts. But there's more.
On my first sojourn in Paris, I arrived New Years Day and stayed until June. I had a friend, Winnie, with whom I worked, who had a car like this one, a Citroen 2CV called a Deux Chevaux, except it was a wreck as only a car that’s cheap to begin with can become a wreck.
Visitors here are silhouetted against the Great Clock at the Musee d'Orsay. The museum is housed in a former rail station and hotel; the clock is visible from quite a long stretch of the opposite bank of the Seine.
Happy Birthday to one of the world’s most famous structures! The Eiffel Tower was officially completed 125 years ago today, on March 31, 1889, just in time for its role as the grand entrance to the Universal Exposition.
While the title of this picture is obvious, it might just as easily have been "A Window On Paris," because there's never nothing interesting when you look out.
In a recent Gumbo blog , Jonathan L. pointed out that travelers (and locals) need a place to rest from time to time while visiting or going about daily life...and part of the need is what's called—logically—street furniture.
There have been occasions when glimpses of a place, from listening to someone speak of them, or in a magazine, a movie, or even a television program, have caused me to tuck the name securely away in memory, to be retrieved later for the impetus to go there.
You'll get almost no argument anywhere if you say that bouillabaisse is the most typical food of Marseilles—and you'll get nothing but argument if you try to discuss its origin and "the" recipe.
Besides wine, the town of Beaune in the Burgundy region of France, is most famous for a roof. Built in 1443 as a hospital for the poor by Duke Philip, known as “The Good”, the HÔtel-Dieu des Hospices de Beaune continued caring for people of the community until 1970.
I took the train an hour from Paris, to Dijon, where I stayed a few days before setting off on a long walk along the Canal de Bourgogne, the Burgundy Canal.